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Learn SolidWorks from Nothing to Certified Associate Level. LATEST: New update on Oct 2015...

Learn SolidWorks from Nothing to Certified Associate Level

New course, created and published Sept-2015 This is a streamlined course to take from knowing nothing about SOLIDWORKS to give you all the knowledge and skills needed to become a certified SOLIDWORKS associate. This course should enable you to, with confidence, use SOLIDWORKS to design your next innovation. After this course, you can proudly list your SOLIDWORKS skills in your resume. Bountysource. CAD Software Video Tutorials. The eMachineShop video guides make it quick and easy to learn the eMachineShop CAD software, a simple but powerful tool that will open up a whole new spectrum of capabilities to bring your ideas, projects and products into reality.

CAD Software Video Tutorials

Found throughout the online Help, you can jump direct to the videos here: Basics: Key Techniques ... Overview 2D basics: 2D Drawing...Drawing Lines 2D advanced: Text ... 2D Advanced ... Tangents 3D basics: Views ... Learn from how these sample shapes are made:Disk with Hole ... Miscellaneous: Machines ... Pleases note the following changes: Videos that use the Arc or Pan buttons - first enable the buttons via Edit | Preferences | Customize. Luckyfishlab - I attended my first LANUG, Lower Alabama .Net User Group, meeting.

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The presentations topic was Durandal JS. I posted a snippet about the meeting on MobileTech List. The South Alabama Linux Users Group meets on the second Saturday of the month at Assurance Technology. Machinery's Handbook, 29th: Erik Oberg: 9780831129002: Amazon.com: Books. Amazon.com: Workshop Processes, Practices and Materials (9780080890647): Bruce Black: Books.

Chemistry of Powder and Explosives : Davis,Tenney L. Scientific and technical books of yesteryear. Quick Intro to Live Programming with Overtone. Chemistry%20and%20Technology%20of%20Explosives%20-%20vol%201%20-%20Urbanski. Praxis Guitars. The Praxis Zero is an open source modular electric guitar framework designed to make customization easy.

Praxis Guitars

The core of the guitar is an aluminum frame. Components are attached to the frame to create a playable guitar. 20 Creative DIY Christmas Ornament Ideas. No other holidays have such a magical and joyous preparation period as Christmas, as the whole month of Advent is dedicated to get into the Christmas spirit and be merry.

20 Creative DIY Christmas Ornament Ideas

Truth be told, holidays will only be as festive as you make them – so don’t wait for the Christmas spirit to manifest itself, start creating it! Probably the best way to get inspired for the holidays is to decorate your house and a Christmas tree. And if you take it one step further and decide to make the decorations and ornaments yourself, then Christmas will be all the more special!

[Read more...] We’ve already shared a collection of DIY Christmas tree ideas, so now it’s time to create some DIY Christmas ornaments for it. Shoe rack in a box. Materials: Ingolf box, ruler, pen, tape, box cutter Description: 1. Farm Hack - National Young Farmers' Coalition : National Young Farmers' Coalition. Brewing up gunpowder with household products.

10 Totally Awesome Things Made Out of Cardboard for Your Home. During a dinner party last night I had a realization, don’t become to attached to things.

10 Totally Awesome Things Made Out of Cardboard for Your Home

I had this epiphany after spending the evening coaxing coasters underneath glasses and following my friends three year old around with a wet towel and dustpan. I realized unlike my civilized friends, I cared a little too much about material things and less about making memories. I began too daydream about furniture that if destroyed, could easily be put out with the recycling. Thus, a blog post was born. Enjoy! Pulp Coffee Table with Stools Cardboard Bed with Drawers Swirly Cardboard Bookshelf Coffee Table with Recycled Cardboard Base Cardboard Cactus by David Stark Bloxes Build Your Own Furniture Cardboard Lounger Don’t Spill Your Dinner Table Cardboard Writing Desk and Stool Cardboard Animal Trophies About Tracy Fay Tracy Fay is the Editor in Chief of Modern Urban Living. » Ten Basics of Firing Electric Kilns. Firing is the most critical part of the ceramics process because it is the one thing that makes clay durable, hence ceramic.

» Ten Basics of Firing Electric Kilns

Here are some of the principles of firing and getting the best results with electric kilns. From Mud to Ceramic Firing converts ceramic work from weak clay into a strong, durable, crystalline glasslike form. Ceramic work is typically fired twice: it is bisque fired and then glaze fired. Crown Hill. Index. Carving the scroll ... OBrienGuitars. Free Plans. Enjoy the free plans and how-to info below, and be sure to check out the ever-growing Cigar Box Guitar How-To Knowledgebase over at www.CigarBoxguitar.com!

Free Plans

Cigar Box Nation's Archive of Homemade Instrument Plans. Modafinil. DIYbio. Lifestyle Mirror: A Clickable Fashion Mag Shows What Vogue Could Be. You know how fashion magazines have these photo spreads and then in small print on the edge there’s a list of key items from the shoot and what they are and how much they cost?

Newly launched Lifestyle Mirror is like that but on the Internet. Stylistically, it quotes heavily from newspapers of old, while technologically it combines the newest new, mixing hyperlinked images with video, and integrating with social networks like Facebook and Twitter (sorry, Google+). The flagship feature of Lifestyle Mirror is the fashion spread. Each image has little red dots peppered around the scene. Click on them and you get more information about a nearby item along with a link to the place you can buy it. With this setup, Lifestyle Mirror joins sites like Nerd Boyfriend and The Wirecutter as a hand-edited recommendation engine, if on a somewhat larger scale. Of the many kinds of publications, fashion magazines might be the ones where the line between editorial and advertising is the thinnest.